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WatuPRO 5.0

Time flies and the quiz plugin WatuPRO already reached version 5.0! Here are the improvements from version 4.9 to 5.0:

  • The quiz description can optionally be shown to users with no rights to access the quiz (for example non-logged in users on quizzes that require user login, etc)
  • The “taking details” popup has been reworked to display the information better, to default to table format, and to include teacher comments (feature from Intelligence module). Note that the points & results column (including teacher comments) by  default is hidden from the student.  It can be enabled from the Edit quiz -> Advanced Settings tab -> Student Dashboard Settings section
  • New Advanced setting allows you to not store the data / result of the quiz taker. This can be useful for running practice quizzes where the results / points should not affect the reports, stats, or user level / badges etc. It also saves a lot of database space in case you don’t need this data.
  • The new shortcode watupro-result will display the result achieved by specific user on specific quiz: points, percent correct, or grade title
  • Questions from selected question categories can now be excluded from reports and CSV result exports
  • New configuration lets you exclude the categories that contain only survey questions from the %%CATGRADES%% variable
  • When “Automatically publish this quiz in new post once I hit the “Save” button.” is selected the newly created post will be categorized in the same category as the quiz  (only when  you have post category with the same name as the quiz category)
  • The watupro-userinfo shortcode now can accept fixed user ID or read user ID from the certificate. Read more at https://blog.calendarscripts.info/user-info-shortcodes-from-watupro-version-4-1-1/
  • You can mass-assign users to a WatuPRO user group
  • Export results now also satisfies your CSV preferences from the WatuPRO Settings page. No more fixed “tab” delimiter.
  • Integration with qTranslate-X (work in progress)
  • [Intelligence module] Runtime logic: you can now configure premature quiz ending in case user fails to reach given  % correct answers during the quiz (after reaching a question number, specified by you). You can also define  a “stop” logic which won’t allow the user to continue further the quiz before they achieve required % correct answers (in this case it makes sense to allow “previous” button so the quiz taker can go back to improve their answers).
  • [Intelligence module] Admin can set different quiz owner. This is useful if you have teacher accounts and assigned “manage only their own exams” rule to their user role(s)
  • [Intelligence module] When a quiz is not accessible due to unsatisfied dependencies the user will now see the table with dependencies on the quiz page so they know what needs to be done.
  • [Reporting module] Added points collected to “Stats per category” page
  • [Reporting module] New shortcode watupror-user-cat-chart lets you display bar chart showing performance per question category for a specific quiz attempt
  • [Reporting  module] New shortcode watupror-qcat-total lets you output total stats for a given user per question category. More info about it in the internal Help page under the WatuPRO menu in your dashboard.
  • Rearranged some of the Email related options to improve the UI
  • Fixed bug: when “Apply difficulty level restrictions per user account.” is selected users with no difficulty levels in their profile had no access to questions instead of accessing all of them
  • Fixed a couple of issues that caused conflicts with plugins like Relevanssi when a page containing WatuPRO shortcode was saved
  • Fixed bug: a link to delete all user quiz results was not showing when admin was viewing user quizzes (path: Users -> Quizzes)
  • Fixed bug: [Intelligence module] Paid quizzes that were purchased from bundles were not showing in My Quizzes page when “Do not display these quizzes in user dashboard until access to them is purchased” was selected.
  • Fixed bug: [Intelligence module] Quizzes paid with 100% promo codes could not be submitted. Now this is fixed + the payment records page will show the promo code payment as a regular payment for the quiz but with information about the used coupon code.

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WatuPRO 4.9

The latest version of the WordPress quiz plugin WatuPRO is now 4.9.

Below are the new features and improvements done between versions 4.8 and 4.9:

      • Question difficulty levels can now be selected in user’s profile (by admin). When this is done the user will be restricted to access only questions from the selected difficulty levels.
      • Difficulty levels can have unlock criteria to be automatically unlocked (if you select “Apply difficulty level restrictions per user account.”)
      • Added log that will show you who and when unlocked a difficulty level (provided that you select “Apply difficulty level restrictions per user account.”)
      • The search form on “view results” page will now include the Phone and Company fields, when they are requested in the quiz.
      • Limit the number of logged in users quiz re-takings within interval of 24 hours, a week, or a month.
      • Certificates now can be issued for completing multiple quizzes with min. average points and / or min. average % correct answer.
      • New option lets you enable a rating widget so users can rate questions.
      • New “final screen” variable %%ANSWERS-PAGINATED%% lets you display the user’s answers one at a time, with a numbered pagination.
      • Added option to automatically cleanup or blank out user submitted data older than X days (to save database space).
      • PDF Certificates can now be attached to emails (Requires PDF Bridge version 0.8 or newer)
      • New option “When no more attempts are available display the latest result.” lets you display a snapshot of the final screen when logged in user that can’t retake the quiz visits the quiz page.
      • The variable %%USER-NAME%% can also be used in the email subject.
      • Added variable %%ADMIN-URL%%. It can be useful for the email sent to admin to quickly find the submission details in the administration.
      • [Reporting module] A bar chart shows the average % correct answers per skill.
      • [Intelligence module] Fill the gaps questions can now accept a numeric range also as correct answer.
      • [Intelligence module] Paid quizzes are now available for non-logged in users as well. To use this your server must support sessions (true in 99% of the cases). Also note that coupon codes functionality is currently available for logged in users only.
      • [Intelligence module] Date stamp when teacher manually edits user results will be stored and shown in the list of results on a quiz.
      • [Intelligence module] You can specify individual CSS for every gap (in Fill the gaps questions) by passing it like last correct answer for the gaps. Example: {{{answer1|answer2|style=”width:250px;font-weight:bold;height:50px;”}}}
      • [Reporting module] Fixed bug: the “Different tests attempted” on the Overview page was showing 0.
      • Fixed subcategory related issues in the Reporting module -> Skills.
      • Fixed false “category name already exists” message when adding subcategories.
      • Fixed bug when user  with the same session saves multiple in-progress quizzes (only one was saving).
      • Fixed bug with saving and reusing the “common category grade design” in the default grades page.
      • Fixed bug with timed quizzes that store user progress and randomize questions (questions order was lost during different unfinished quiz attempts).
      • Fixed bug when timed “non-ajax” quiz required contact details at the beginning (the details were getting lost)
      • Added auto-scroll to top after filling contact details on quizzes that ask for them at the beginning.
      • Improved styling of the buttons in the admin pages.

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Arigato PRO 2.5 and Intelligence Module 1.0.7

The WordPress drip marketing plugin Arigato PRO 2.5 has been released. It’s Intelligence module is also updated to version 1.0.7. In order to get the most of the new Performance Stats page, when updating Arigato PRO to 2.5 it’s recommended to also update the Intelligence module to the latest version.

Here is the changelog between versions 2.4 and 2.5:

  • You can restrict by user role the feature “Automatically subscribe in this list everyone who registers in my blog”.
  • The feature “When user subscribes to this mailing lists, register them as subscriber for my site too” also allows selecting user role.
  • New page “Advanced Stats” will show you excellent overview of your best performing newsletters, autoresponder campaigns, top subscribers, and more.
  • Unsubscribe stats will show you which newsletters, autoresponder campaigns and individual autoresponder emails lead to most unsubscribed users (note that these stats are recorded from a recent version so you won’t get meaningful results from before installing 2.5).
  • When users unsubscribe, we’ll record which email they clicked the “unsubscribe” link from. This info will be shown in the subscribers list page if you choose to not delete the unsubscribed users from the Arigato PRO Settings page.
  • The plugin will now track where the subscribers come from – web form (and on which page), added by admin, imported, subscribed by email, auto-subscribed, or subscribed by some custom method. This information will be visible in your list of users and can be filtered in the search form.
  • The number of active and unsubscribed users is now shown under each mailing list on the Mailing Lists page
  • Added num. sent & num. unsubscribed users under the list of emails in an autoresponder campaign. Same done for newsletters.
  • Custom fields will also be included in the search subscribers form. Note that the search is text-based and works the same way as searching in the default fields.
  • You can now easily setup your blog homepage or selected URL to work as “Squeeze page” and not show any of the WordPress header, footer, sidebar etc links.
  • Advanced role management lets you specify which pages and what access to them will be given to the different user roles. This lets you get your team members involved into the autoresponder management without giving them access to the whole functionality of the plugin. This configuration is available through a new link in the “Roles” section of the “Settings” page.
  • New setting lets you choose whether the unsubscribe page will display all lists or just the current list the user is unsubscribing from.
  • [Intelligence module] Post contents is also added as variable for the digests
  • [Intelligence module] New trigger: when user stays subscribed for X days do Y
  • [Inteligence module] Basic responsive template included

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